#roman phallus

[thesilicontribesman]

Phallic Carving and Courtyard at the Headquarters Building (Principia) at Chesters Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall.

[romeneverfell]

looking up Roman artifacts is always like 

[romeneverfell]

I though you were kidding about the Roman phallus tag but my god were they obsessed with dicks

Romans had a very deeply-ingrained cultural obsession with phallic imagery, and while it did sometimes evoke a purely sexual feeling a lot of times it was more-commonly meant to symbolize good luck, protection, and fertility (such as divinely-bestowed bountiful harvests) 

The protection element is why you see it in objects like this child’s ring (to us it seems weird to put such a vulgar symbol on something given to a child but to Romans it was one of, if not the, best ways of asking for divine protection upon the child) 

and also why you see it in art like this relief where a fascinus (a phallic creature with animal legs) aims it’s smaller dick an eye. The fascinus often appears in the form of wind chimes, too, displayed in the fronts of houses for protection there.  

Another good example is mosaics like this one where the cock is again aimed at an eye.

That eye is symbolic of curses, essentially (if you click the mosaic link it’ll take you to the great post accompanying this mosaic talking about that). 

They had a god for penis-luck. Priapus embodied the fertility and the “bountiful harvest” side to the phallic symbol, so he has a huge dong and is often pictured with farming tools or with foodstuffs. I think it’s interesting that a male symbol was used by them to symbolize fertile harvests because it’s usually the female element that’s employed for that purpose. Here is an iconic representation of him carrying a bundle of food: 

on his dick, of course. I decided to make a whole tag dedicated to their phallic imagery because it really is an important element of their culture, and arguably one of the most unique ones. So yeah, my tag is 100% not a joke haha! Romans were really something. 

[romeneverfell]

I'm glad I can rely on you for meaty roman cock content all day every day

I’m unsure if I should feel more flattered or more disturbed by this 

nevertheless your comment has such powerful roman vibes so I hope you enjoy continuing to peruse my phallus tag 

[romeneverfell]

The conceit of being a classics blogger is reblogging ancient dicks all the time and tagging them "phallus" as if you don't realize that you're just making an excuse to put a bunch of dicks on your blog.